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I wanted to paint something different after my PanO force, which has grey as the primary color. First, I thought about Tohaa, but finally I decided to try CA instead. I always liked the organic designs of the range, and even though the new Morat miniatures are quite nice, I wanted to leave these and their style out of the mix and concentrate on the creepy-crawlies instead.

As a color scheme, I wanted to try something new, and I'm very happy how it turned out: I wanted to paint the armor plates in the color of iridescent green chitin, like that of flesh flies or certain bugs. As a contrast, the rest was done in relatively dull greys and tans.

On the Asuwang I experimented a bit with "bristles" painted on these parts to help with an insectoid look.

I also had to learn the lesson that matte varnish really messes up the nice metallic chitin effect, and could not rescue it with gloss varnish either. I think I'll brush matte varnish on the non-chitinous parts in the future, and either gloss the metallic areas or leave them without varnish.

Next one is a remote. That was always one of my favourite Infinity models, and I hurried to grab some of the old ones before they were updated to the new, more robotic looking model.

My ink-based chitin technique is harder to pull off on these large areas, so I tried to liven it up a bit with some painted speckles and bumps. The result looks ok, but I think in the end I like it better without.

And the last one so far is a slave drone, I also like the little buggers very much. The paint job was pretty straightforward here, the hardest thing was to decide where to stop painting green and start with grey, since this model does not have any real "organic" parts.

With the glowing eyes, he reminds me a bit of the evil octopus robots from the "matrix" movie...

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I agree the seed soldiers aren't bad sculpts, especially the knife-wielding guys. I actually really like the whole line *except* for the shrouded, who I find kind of static-looking and boring. Fortunately they spend most of their table time as camo markers anyway

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I'm also not so happy with the shrouded, my main problem with them is that they lack distinguishing features. The old sniper had a big cloak, which kind of makes sense, but the new one looks kind of generic.

I think the whole range is quite mixed. I really like the Noctifers and Aswangs, a lot of the biomechanical stuff, and the Caliban is also quite nice. The Gwailos and Seed Soldiers are ok, but the Malignos, Cadmus and Speculo Killers are really not my cup of tea!

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And a more complex model, something I wanted to try since I started this army: A noctifier with a "moth wing" cloak. That took quite some time of trial and error, but I'm happy how it came out in the end. I left out the original stairs base that came with the model, and built something more technical from leftovers for him to stand on.

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The classic remotes come with little wings printed on a transparent plastic sheet, and I forgot to attach them. Now I tried them out, and really like how they look! Also, I changed the way I marked the vision arcs on my minis to a little metallic green bead (a painted metal pin head) on the front.

And something I had planned for a while now: A proxied Speculo Killer. I don't like the original model, but love the Corax, so I used her without the rifle pack instead. Also, I exchanged the original sword for a monofilament whip, it's nice that her arm position looks like she's uncoiling it or using it as a garotte.

Also, I gave her the same moth cloak as the Noctifer. I'm not completely happy with the color choice for the two shoulder bags, I wanted them to have the same organic look as the weapons I painted on other minis, but I think they look a bit like they are made out of cowskin now.

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Maybe give the bright parts of them a green glaze to make them stand out?

You mean the metallic green parts? I think glazing them completely would not be such a good idea, since that would cover the yellow part and harm the multicolor effect. Or do you mean the plastic wings?

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No I was thinking about the cowskin bags. I got the impression that you disliked the way it turned out, so I thought a green glaze might make it look less cow leathery and more alien something leathery? What green metallic parts were you referring to, I think I might have misinterpreted you

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Ah, ok, I see what you mean! My first thought was also to give them that same green chitin look as in the kneecaps and shoulderpads, but I usually reserve that for armor, and the bags are probably made out of softer material. I'm a bit hesitant to mix in green there, because right now almost everything is done in relatively similar colors, with a mix of grey, brown and tan, and only the green chitin is supposed to contrast and stand out.